By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

You can set redaction properties, such as the appearance and the author, and so forth. Only before you apply the redaction can you set the properties.

Right-click the marked area and choose Properties… and the Redaction Properties dialog box pops up. The redaction properties have Appearance tab, General tab and Review History tab. There are two additional settings on every tab:

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

To mark text or graphics for redaction, select Protect > Mark for Redaction > Text & Images, and the Hand command changes into a Cross  automatically. Then do any the following to mark the content:

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Foxit PDF Editor supports the removal of hidden information that is private or sensitive for users from their PDFs, generally including metadata, embedded content, attached files, and scripts. 

There are two commands you can use to remove hidden information: Sanitize Document and Remove Hidden Information. To remove all hidden information from a PDF file in one go, choose Protect > Hidden Data > Sanitize Document

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

You can specify the AIP settings before you encrypt PDFs. To specify AIP settings, please navigate to File > Preferences > AIP Settings

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

If you open a PDF which is encrypted by Foxit with other PDF viewers, a wrapper (which is a PDF page) appears with a prompt that you need to download Foxit PDF Reader/Editor to open the encrypted PDF. With Foxit Configuration Tool, you can customize the wrapper by selecting a desired PDF file. 

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

You can also set the printing permissions by specifying certain network printers to protect the sensitive information from being printed arbitrarily.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Foxit PDF Editor enables you to track on the usage of AIP protected files to record the actions on the files during workflow, including who accessed the document, what document was accessed, when it was accessed, how it was accessed and the success of that access, and more.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Foxit Configuration Tool provides you with Extended Policy to add complete PDF protection and control to your PDF documents. The policy allows documents owners to control the number of access and the number of prints in an on-premise environment.

By Cynthia, 7 December, 2025

Revocation is a mechanism that revokes a PDF document that has already been issued. A common use of revocation is to remove rights from an individual when he is no longer authorized or remove access to a document when it becomes out of date or invalid.